Fanny Kemble Quotes
An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
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I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.
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It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
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An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.
